Marking device for siding.



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MARKING DEVICE FOR SIDING.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 666,680, dated January 29, 1901.

Application filed June 29,1900.

To all whom, it Wtcty concern:

Be it known that I, LEWIS H. KROKE, a citi- Zen of the United States, residing at Dwight, in the county of Bichland and State of North Dakota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Marking Devices for Siding; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My present invention has for its object to provide an improved device for marking siding so as to indicate the length at which it should be cut in order to closely fit or abut against the corner-board of a building.

To the ends above indicated the invention consists of the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafterdescribed, and defined in the claims.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the complete device. Fig. 2 is a view, partly in plan, with some parts broken away'and others sectioned, looking at the device from the opposite side from that shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a transverse section approximately on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1, showing the device applied in working position to mark a piece of siding; and Fig. 4 shows the device in end elevation, some parts being broken away and others sectioned.

In the drawings the numeral 1 indicates a portion of a building, the numeral 2 the corner-boards, and the numeral 3 a piece of siding.

The device comprises a handpiece a of tubular form connected at its ends to the prongs of a flat plate a. The plate a is provided with projections a that are spaced apart far enough to straddle or embrace a wide piece of siding and to engage as aliningstops with the adjacent corner-board 2. Secured to the inner side of the plate a by means of screws 1) is an anchoring-bracket I), provided at its outer edge or lower edge, as shown in Fig. 2, with transversely-cut wedgeshaped teeth 12 The screws I) extend through the plate a and are screwed into keepers or retaining-plates 12 which serve a purpose to be presently noted. Said screws 22 extend Serial No- 22,037. (N0 model.

through slots in the said anchoring-bracket b, thereby permitting the said bracket an adjustment toward and from thehandpiece a.

Mounted to slide between the plate a and the keepers b is a marking-bar f, having a sharp serrated outer edge f and provided with cam-slots f through which cam-pins f projected through the plate a, Work, as-hereinafter described. A leaf-spring j, which is mounted with its ends pressing against the hubs of the keepers b presses with its intermediate portion against the marking blade or barfand tends to force the same outward or downward with respect to Fig. 1. To keep the springf against end wise movement, it is provided at its intermediate portion with a projection f which works in a slot 0, in the plate a.

Pivoted at 9 within the tubular handpiece a is a short lever g, projecting in opposite directions from the opposite ends of which are pivotally-connected rods g g both of which, as shown, work through small guidebrackets a", secured within said handpiece. The rod g is provided at its outer end, outward of the end of the handpiece a, with a thumb-piece g while the rod g is pivotally connected at its outer end to the free end of a lever is, which is pivoted to the plate a, as shown at it, and is formed at its upper end with a flattened portion or thumb-piece k to which, as shown, the said rod 9 is directly pivoted. Aooiled springg compressed on the rod g between the bracket (1 and the upper end of the lever is, normally holds the said rods 9 and g extended or projected, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The lower end of the lever is is provided with a pin M, which works in a vertical slot f of the marking blade or barf, and thus imparts longitudinal reciprocations thereto, while permitting the said bar to move transversely.

The use of the device is as follows: The siding to be marked and thereafter cut is properly positioned and overlapped with the corner-board 2, as shown in Fig. 3. The device is then applied as shown in Fig. 3, and the wedge-shaped teeth of the anchor-bracket b are pressed into the outer face of the strip of siding, while the alining projections a of the plate a are snugly placed against the adjacent edge of the corner-board. The siding is marked bypressing with the thumb on one or the other of the thumb-pieces g 70 under which action the marking-bladefis given a longitudinal movement toward the right with respect to Fig. 1. As the said blade f is moved toward the right the cam-slots f permit the spring f to throw the said blade against the adjacent face of the strip of siding, so that the reciprocations of the said blade will cause the sharp serrated edge f to cnta sharp line across the siding precisely in line with the adjacent edge of the corner-board 2. Inasmuch as the device may be operated from either end it may be turned either end up, and hence is adapted for use on either side of the corner-board. Also it will be understood that the device above described is capable of considerable modification Within the scope of my invention.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of'the United States, is as follows:

1. The combination with'the plate or support having alining projections adapted to embrace the siding and engage the cornerboard, of a marking-blade mounted thereon for longitudinal and transverse movements, spring and cam devices normally holding said blade retracted, a lever for moving said blade against said spring, and another spring tending to move said blade transversely into engagement with the siding to be be marked, substantially as described.

2. The combination with the plate or support having projections adapted to straddle the siding and engage the corner-board, of a marking-blade mounted on said plate, means for operating the same at Will, and a serrated anchor bracket or bar engageable with the siding, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

3. The combination With the handpiece a, of the plate a secured to said handpiece and provided with the alined projections a the reciprocating and serrated markingblade f mounted on said plate a, the pivoted lever is for operating said blade, and the serrated anchor-bracket b' fixed to said plate a, such. parts operating substantially described.

4. The combination with the tubular handle a, of the plate a secured to said handle and provided with the alined projections a the serrated marki ng-bladef having the cam-slot f and mounted to reciprocate on said plate a, by means of keepers and cam-pinsf the spring f acting on said blade f, the lever 70 pivoted to said plate a and acting on said blade f, the lever g pivoted within said handpiece a and provided with the rods g 9 the former connected to said lever 76, the spring 9 acting on said lever is, and the serrated anchor-bracket b 12* secured to said plate a, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my slgnature in presence of two witnesses.

LEWIS H. KROKE. \Vitnesses:

H. C. N. MYHRA, O. A. MOKEAN. 

